{"product_id":"the-jesuits-9780802042873","title":"The Jesuits","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn astounding history of the accomplishments of the Society of Jesus, from painting and poetry to cartography and physics, from Europe to New France to China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A triumphalist volume - and a triumphant one.' -- Alison Shell Times Literary Supplement 'An important addition to the historiography of the Society of Jesus and the early modern world ... Should be ignored only at a scholar's risk.' -- Michael W. Maher, S.J. Catholic Historical Review 'The scope of the contributions is breathtaking.' -- Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'Combines cutting-edge scholarship with traditional concerns ... An excellent collection.' -- Kathleen M. Comerford Sixteenth Century Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION ABBREVIATIONS PART ONE Refraining Jesuit History 1  1 \/ The Historiography of the Society of Jesus:  Where Does It Stand Today?   JOHN W. O'MALLEY, S.J.  2 \/ 'Le style j suite n'existe pas': Jesuit  Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY  3 \/ The Fertility and the Shortcomings of  Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case MARC FUMAROLI  4 \/ The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science RIVKA FELDHAY    PART TWO The Roman Scene   5 \/ Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of  Jesuit Taste CLARE ROBERTSON  6 \/ Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the  Collegio Romano LOUISE RICE  7 \/ From The Eyes of All' to 'Usefull  Quarries in phihlosophy and good literature': Consuming Jesuit Science,  1600-1665 MICHAEL JOHN GORMAN  8 \/ Music History in the Musurgia univer-salts of Athanasius  Kircher MARGARET MURATA  PART THREE Mobility: Overseas Missions and the Circulation of Culture  9 \/ Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of  Travel in the Geography of Knowledge STEVEN J. HARRIS  10 \/ Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the  Acad mie Royale des Sciences FLORENCE HSIA  11 \/ Exemplo  aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World DOMINIQUE DESLANDRES  12 \/ East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in  Central Europe, and Central European Art in the Americas THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN  13 \/ The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer  of Secular Baroque Culture to the R o de la Plata Region MAGNUS M RNER  14 \/ Candide and a Boat T. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J.  PART FOUR Encounters with the Other: Between Assimilation and Domination   15 \/ Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits and  Culture in the East ANDREW C. ROSS  16 \/ Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped by  the Chinese NICOLAS STANDAERT, S.J.  17 \/Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit  Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human  Nature QIONG ZHANG  18 \/ The  Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the  Arts in Mughal India GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY  19 \/ Roberto de Nobili's Dialogue on Eternal Life and an Early  Jesuit Evaluation of Religion in South India FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J.  20 \/ The Jesuits and the Indigenous Peoples  of the Philippines REN  B. JAVELLANA, S.J.  PART FIVE Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation   21 \/ Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian  Monarch IRVING LAVIN  22 \/ Innovation and Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution  to Architectural Development in Portuguese India DAVID M. KOWAL  23 \/ God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics  of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the Sixth and Tenth Centuries B.C.E. JAIME LARA  24 \/ Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De anima Commentaries ALISON SIMMONS  25 \/ Jesuit Physics in Eighteenth-Century  Germany: Some Important Continuities MARCUS HELLYER  26 \/ The Jesuits and Polish Sarmatianism STANISLAW OBIREK, S.J.  PART SIX Conversion and Confirmation through Devotion and the Arts  27 \/ The Art of Salvation in Bavaria JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH  28 \/ Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer and  Emblematist in Stuart England KARL JOSEF HOLTGEN  29 \/ Jesuit Casuistry or Jesuit Spirituality?  The Roots of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J.  30 \/ The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the  Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil PAULO CASTAGNA  31 \/The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: The Role  of Music in Rite, Ritual, and Spectacle WILLIAM J. SUMMERS  32 \/ Jesuit Devotions and Retablos in New Spain CLARA BARGELLINI  PART SEVEN Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We  Go from Here?  JOSEPH CONNORS  LUCE GIARD  MICHAEL J. BUCKLEY, S.J.  INDEX","brand":"MY - University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359180751191,"sku":"9780802042873","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802042873.jpg?v=1754123910","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-jesuits-9780802042873","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}